Race for Life: Team Metro gear up to kick cancer’s butt

It’s all smiles now, but there might be some tears down the line. (Picture: Chris Harris)

Vicki-Marie Cossar is taking part in Cancer Research UK’s Race for Life – a series of 5k, 10k and Pretty Muddy® women-only fundraising events and will be blogging about her progress.

Today we’re having the photo shoot for the Race for Life project. This means I get to meet my fellow #TeamMetro team mates.

I’m glad I’m not doing this challenge alone. I think the support and encouragement of my fellow team mates is going to really help when the training gets tough.

Polly Humphris, 33, is a freelance travel journalist who writes for Metro. She’s got two daughters and an obsession with cheese, apparently. She’ll be trying to get a sub-one hour 10K.

Jennifer Barton, 31, is also a mum, but as an ex-ballerina (she’s decided that dancing to Disney songs can no longer be her only cardio), I think she will be one to watch over the coming months. She’s training for the 5K and says she will be happy to just get to the finishing line.

The shoot is a bundle of laughs, helped along by the fact we’ve all got new kit – yay!

If anything can inspire you to get out there and kick Cancer’s butt, it’s shiny new workout kit. For today’s shoot I’m wearing my grey Race for Life T-shirt, Roxy pants, a Lija bra top, and ZQuick Reebok trainers. I certainly look the part.

But this project isn’t just about us. As we bond over lunch, I find that each of us has been personally touched by cancer in some way. Not only that but we’re keen to find out exactly who we’re doing this event for and where our money will go.

The #nomakeupselfie trend raised a staggering £8million for Cancer Research UK in six days. This just shows people are keen to get involved where they can. And if we can get just a few of these brave bare-faced women to sign up for a Race For Life event, raising even more money for Cancer Research UK in the process, then we might just that little bit closer to stopping cancer in its tracks.

The cure is in the research, so come on ladies! What’s a little mud when you’ve bared all to the world on social media?